The decline of the star candidate in Tasmania
One feature of the recent Tasmanian state election result was a surprisingly small number of candidates reaching a quota on primary votes, despite the...
Informal rates up in Tasmania with bigger parliament
It's no surprise that the informal rate increased at the recent Tasmanian state election, but I wanted to explore how high the rate went,...
Stop holding state by-elections alongside council elections!
This is a message for the state of Queensland, who've now done this at the last two rounds of council elections in 2020 and...
The mismatch in Brisbane’s booth results
When I was analysing the 2020 Brisbane City election results at the start of the year, I noticed an inconsistency. I've now identified that...
BCC – postal voting down, but pre-poll voting holds its own
Now that we have the final results for the Brisbane City Council election, we can assess how people chose to cast their votes, and...
Cook by-election live
9:06 - I'm going to wrap up here. This was a very comfortable Liberal victory, with a primary vote currently sitting on 62.7%.
8:28 -...
Tasmanian LC candidates announced
Nominations have been declared for three Tasmanian Legislative Council elections, with polling day on May 4.
Tasmania's upper house is never fully dissolved, with two...
The impact of OPV in Brisbane
Now that we have the final voting figures for the City of Brisbane, it was possible to update the analysis of preference flows and...
New datasets now published
I have been spending the last few weeks adding a bunch of extra data to the Tally Room data repository, This repository contains tidy...
Tasmania produces a very proportional result
The recent Tasmanian election was very interesting and complex to follow, right down to the final preference distributions, but it also did a good...